Seminar is Saturday for nonprofits who want more effect boards of directors

Presenters during Saturday's "Maximizing Nonprofit Effectiveness" workshop will cover such issues as who to ask to join your board of directors, how to find good board members and how to manage them afterward.Gazette File

KALAMAZOO, MI -- A seminar designed to help nonprofit managers and staff members looking for more effective ways to assemble a board of directors, improve marketing and be prepared for changes coming out of Washington, D.C., is scheduled for this Saturday in downtown Kalamazoo.

Marc Hardy, director of Nonprofit Executive Education at the University of Notre Dame, will cover such board issues as who to ask, how to find and how to manage them. Hardy has a Ph.D from the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and has taught nonprofit leadership and management at IU and Butler University as well as led or served as a director of several nonprofit organizations.

Thom Andrews, director of ONEplace@kpl, a management support center for nonprofit organization leaders, managers, fundraisers and communicators, will discuss marketing your nonprofit within a typical nonprofit budget. Andrews is a former marketing director of the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra, served as an adjunct faculty member at Western Michigan University and has conducted benefits and management classes.

Advertising veteran David Ray Kiely will present new thinking coming from Washington that may cause major changes in ways organizations here operate to maintain their nonprofit status. Kiely is chief executive officer and managing partner at Silver Fox Advising. He has more than 35 years of experience working with nonprofit organizations in New York, South Carolina, Minnesota and Indiana, and served on the executive board of the American Network of Community Options and Resources and has spoken at state and national conferences.

The cost to attend the four-hour workshop is $40 per person, with a $10 break on that fee for the second person from the same company. Instructional materials are included. Interested persons may register at www.kalamazoo.score.org (local workshops).

SCORE, the service corps of retired executives, offers free business counseling and advice to any business in any stage of development from startup to mature. For membership or local mentoring services, contact the local SCORE offices at info@scorekazoo.org